Is this pre-draft picks trade fair? (1 Viewer)

[LordHusker]

OK, I happen to think this is an incredibly lop-sided trade that guarantees one owner a cakewalk to the Championship.

But you tell me.

14-team league

The guy with the 4th pick wants to trade his 1st, 2nd and 4th round picks to the guy with the 1st pick for his 1st, 7th and 9th.

In other words, for giving up LT, the guy lucky enough to draw the No. 1 pick will begin his draft with one pick in the 1st, two picks in the second, one pick in the third, two picks in the fourth ...

In a 14-team league, this seems devastating.

 

[BigSteelThrill]

Sounds fine. Its what it takes.

 

[Assani Fisher]

not fair at all, but unless it collusion theres nothing wrong with it.

 

[turnit643]

Good job by the lucky former owner of LT's rights ... found someone willing to pay a high price for the league's prize commodity.

 

[LordHusker]

OK, point taken. Thanks guys.

 

[faux_bear]

I agree with you. It's ridiculous.

If I'm sitting there with the 10th overall pick or something, and I see the guy ahead of me draft not only Frank Gore (assuming he's the 4th pick), but then 2 more second rounders and 2 more 4th rounders... I'm not happy.

A snake draft more or less assumes that all draft slots are created equal...obviously this is not the case, but then when higher picks start being sold off at higher prices to guys who were less fortunate to draw a lower pick, it really starts to create greater inequality between draft positions.

I dunno, I think it's lame.

 

[Bears_Man2]

Looks good to me. So he grabs LT and also gets a decent #2 RB with the early 3rd he still has. And grabs a few WR and maybe QB/TE with his 5th,6th, 2 7th's.

I think it's a great move by the 4th pick owner.

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As far as the pick value argument, I agree. I drew the #12 in one league myself, and all the trades to be made were determined by Dodd's pick valuation table. Yet it was your normal serpertine draft (like yours).....where all picks aren't equal overall to begin with. Best you can do is just suck it up.

 

[BigSteelThrill]

Lets take a closer look at at the points for a league that runs a standard serpentine draft (as opposed to the Banzai Method or 3RR)...

You have picks and the '06 player scores:

#1----- RB1 (348 LT)

#85--- WR31 (97 Kennison)

#112-- QB16 (219 Pennington)

#4----- RB4 (241 Gore)

#25--- WR5 (157 Driver)

#53--- QB7 (264 Brady)

Just going blindly down an ADP list... but at the same positions... and applying last years point from the equal current spot to the equation....

(Using the scoring I have in front of me - NO PPR, 4pt TD, 1/10rush/rec and 1/20 pass)

Adding it all up point for point...

664 for the new #1 owner.

662 for the new #4 owner.

That is an incredibly close amount and well done by them.

 

[cstu]

I think it's a fine trade for both sides. If LT repeats last year then he's going to outscore whoever is taken at #4 by 150 points.

 

[BigSteelThrill]

Was curious if anyone else still found the trade grossly unfair after looking at the participants?

Tomlinson

Kennison

Pennington

-for-

Gore

Driver

Brady

 

[freeannyong]

Was curious if anyone else still found the trade grossly unfair after looking at the participants? TomlinsonKennisonPennington-for-GoreDriverBrady

Did you miss...Adding it all up point for point...664 for the new #1 owner.662 for the new #4 owner.

 

[BigSteelThrill]

Was curious if anyone else still found the trade grossly unfair after looking at the participants? TomlinsonKennisonPennington-for-GoreDriverBrady

Did you miss...Adding it all up point for point...664 for the new #1 owner.662 for the new #4 owner.

Im the one who did the math and posted it. I just read the posts saying it was unfair, but after looking at it deeper and posting the numbers... I was wondering if people were still of that mind set that it was unfair but maybe not saying anything.